Author: SEQUIM PRESS
Title: Welcome to Sequim and the Dungeness Valley "Heart of the Sunshine Belt"
Description: Sequim, WA: Sequim Press, 1960. Stapled wraps. ISBN: 0881847283. This is a trade sized booklet with cardstock covers and a stapled spine. The booklet is in Very Good+ condiiton and was issued without a dust jacket. The book covers have a tiny bit of bumping to the spine ends and corners. The text pages are clean and bright. "The area is a fan-shaped alluvial plain created by the Dungeness River, which flows out of the Olympic Mountains. It was repeatedly covered by glaciers and ice sheets, the most recent of which was the Cordilleran, which covered Puget Sound and the Strait of Juan de Fuca south to the foothills of the Olympic Mountains. The retreat of this ice sheet about 14,000 years ago left a fertile, well-drained plain. A combination of climate, soil conditions and strategic burning by Indians maintained the prairie. The rain shadow cast by the Olympic Mountains provides the sunniest climate in Western Washington, with an average of only slightly over 16 inches of rain a year. However, timber was also present in abundance, especially on the slopes of the Olympics and on ridges scattered about the prairie. The tillable land was expanded as early settlers logged off this timber and grubbed out their “stump farms. ”The most notable feature of the shoreline is Dungeness Spit, a narrow, curving natural projection of sand, rock, and driftwood extending over five miles into the strait and occasionally submerged during storms. On July 4, 1790, the Spanish mariner Manuel Quimper was the first European to sight this area. He named the bluff behind the spit Puerto de Quimper. On July 8 he claimed the bay protected by the spit for Spain and planted the usual cross." (from Wikipedia). Very Good+ .
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Title: Welcome to Sequim and the Dungeness Valley "Heart of the Sunshine Belt"
Description: Sequim, WA: Sequim Press, 1960. Stapled wraps. ISBN: 0881847283. This is a trade sized booklet with cardstock covers and a stapled spine. The booklet is in Very Good+ condiiton and was issued without a dust jacket. The book covers have a tiny bit of bumping to the spine ends and corners. The text pages are clean and bright. "The area is a fan-shaped alluvial plain created by the Dungeness River, which flows out of the Olympic Mountains. It was repeatedly covered by glaciers and ice sheets, the most recent of which was the Cordilleran, which covered Puget Sound and the Strait of Juan de Fuca south to the foothills of the Olympic Mountains. The retreat of this ice sheet about 14,000 years ago left a fertile, well-drained plain. A combination of climate, soil conditions and strategic burning by Indians maintained the prairie. The rain shadow cast by the Olympic Mountains provides the sunniest climate in Western Washington, with an average of only slightly over 16 inches of rain a year. However, timber was also present in abundance, especially on the slopes of the Olympics and on ridges scattered about the prairie. The tillable land was expanded as early settlers logged off this timber and grubbed out their “stump farms. ”The most notable feature of the shoreline is Dungeness Spit, a narrow, curving natural projection of sand, rock, and driftwood extending over five miles into the strait and occasionally submerged during storms. On July 4, 1790, the Spanish mariner Manuel Quimper was the first European to sight this area. He named the bluff behind the spit Puerto de Quimper. On July 8 he claimed the bay protected by the spit for Spain and planted the usual cross." (from Wikipedia). Very Good+ .
Keywords: Western Americana Sequim Press Western Washington State Tourist Guides American History Washington State
Price: US$ 15.00 Seller: S. Howlett-West Books
- Book number: 48957
- Book number: 48957
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